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The Weight Loss Challenge

A mid-aged women  -  will gain and lose weight far differently than a 25-year-old man—or a 20-year-old woman for that matter. Most programs don’t take this into account. It’s not enough to simply cut calories. While their caloric requirements have dropped, their need for certain vitamins and minerals has increased. In addition, many women are quite familiar with the mood swings, cravings, sleep disturbances, hot flashes, and all the other challenges mid-aged women face as hormone levels change. Suffice it to say, it’s enough to throw any well-intended weight loss strategy off track.

In addition, the countless diet programs available today ignore the specific needs that women over 40 have. Plans based on a “miracle pill,” calorie counting, or restricting certain food groups, ignore the core issues of weight gain. As you are aware weight gain is a function of overall health, address the unique psychological and physiological needs of mid-aged women:

What if you could turn your body into a fat burning machine instead of a fat storing machine?

Would this be something that you be interested in doing?

As you eat your body releases GLUCOSE, a simple sugar that travels through your blood stream.

Glucose is your primary food for your Muscle Cells, Brain Cells, and Heart Cells.

As glucose moves through your blood stream your pancreas produces a hormone called INSULIN.

Insulin is the ‘gate keeper’ to your cells.  It opens the door and allows glucose to enter our cells without Insulin your cells cannot be fed.

What if you eat more than you need?

Along with your muscle, brain and heart cells you also have FAT CELLS.  Your cells never eat more than they need so when you have more glucose than your cells can use the excess amount is stored in your fat cells where it is converted into FREE FATTY ACIDS. 

Once the glucose is out of the blood stream, your cells have been fed and the surplus stored… then insulin closes the door to your cells and leaves your body.

When your body needs more energy and does not have food handy it turns to the fat cells and the free fatty acids stored inside them. 

The free fatty acids go into your blood stream to feed all your other cells.  FFA
do not need insulin to open the cell doors… this is why they are referred to as free fatty acid.

It is your body’s natural process to store fat when you have too much glucose and to burn fat when you do not have enough glucose.  Your body was designed to work this way and in a perfect world with perfect diets it would all work perfectly. 

Sadly because we do not have perfect diets then you body does not benefit from this natural process very often.  You store too much fat and rarely burn it off!

This is what happens!

You start your day with processed and/or sugary food and your glucose spikes.

Your pancreas then pumps out insulin and this also spikes. 

Insulin does its job and opens the doors to the working cells and the excess glucose is stored in the fat cells.

This happens fast and glucose drops down fairly quickly while insulin remains high.  When insulin levels are high you cannot access the free fatty acids in your fat cells.  

Free fatty acids do not need Insulin to enter your cells but they do need insulin to be gone to leave your fat cells.  If your free fatty acids cannot leave your fat cells then you can experience CRAVINGS, MOOD SWINGS AND A DROP IN ENERGY LEVELS.   What happens next? YOU EAT!

Glucose spikes again and your body releases more insulin… your cells open and are fed and the excess glucose is put into your fat cells.  Insulin levels remain high and you still cannot release any free fatty acids.  This cycle continues to add to your storage without taking any out.  

Bathing your body in insulin can make you age faster and you can be more susceptible to type 2 diabetes.

Interesting, isn’t it?

How can you ‘fix’ this problem naturally so you can help your body burn fat and not store fat?

Watch out for my next email because I have found the answer and I am going to share what I have with you. 

I am on the Sunshine Coast and I have friends waiting for me, so I must fly…

Have a better than happy day

Sue

PS… Read the testimonial below from one of my lovely ladies re my e-book ‘exercise… is a secret to anti-ageing’ If you have not checked it out yet, you really must because you can learn some secrets and be motivated to start your exercise program now.  I cannot express to you enough how this one strategy can help you REVERSE your ageing process. 

Hi Sue

I have just finished reading your book..once I started I wanted to finish it.It is very easy to read and I know it will give me the incentive I need to move and exercise more.I like the fact that you have practical ideas that we can use and the photos of the exercises are also a very useful tool.As I have known you for a long time now and have been corresponding over the years so much of what is in the book I have some knowledge of but this book has refreshed as well as added to my knowledge and understanding.Thank you for wanting to help and advise us…I appreciate it very much and I am sure many others do to.

Hope you have a fantastic day